The UK Sport Partnership
As UK Sport's Official Engineering Partner, we are supporting British athletes in preparing for sporting success through the application of leading edge technologies and engineering solutions.
We joined forces with UK Sport in 2008 to provide the GB Rowing team with a sensor system that provides each crew member with feedback on how the team is performing and how they can gain or hold speed. By combining our technology and knowledge with the UK Sports Institute Performance Innovation’s 18 years of experience of partnering with high performance sports, we’ve gone on to provide performance-impacting tech solutions to over 200 athletes from 30 different sports.
Between 2008 and 2012 the Partnership benefited 20 different Olympic and Paralympic sports and 140 athletes ranging from cycling to skeleton, to taekwondo and sailing. The relationship is providing some of Britain’s top athletes and their coaches access to BAE Systems’ expertise and technology innovations normally reserved for the defence and security sector.
Support for British Athletes
Our UK-based scientists, engineers, apprentices and graduates have been busy working on a number of structural and mechanical engineering, aerodynamics, mathematical modelling and materials science solutions to help British athletes reach the podium in major competitions